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Meet with mike woods had voided areas like eagle pass, texas, where there were actual immigrants crossing while the president was in the state. >> he was receiving a sanitized review of what was going on at the border. and i pleaded with him to go talk to the ranchers, thousands of ranchers along the border whose lives have been completel disruptive as well as talk of the families who have lost a loved one because of the open border policies that he has had. >> when i was on the border in texas, the democratic mayor pro tem at eagle pass pleaded with the president to come and visit and asked f...

Program for migrants south of the border to come up and process at that juncture, very similar to what they do in my district. this is done in partnership with other countries. have them process their asylum claim 1500 miles from the southern border. it takes the pressure off our border, one, and allowing border patrol and law enforcement to do their job and it takes the cartel element out of it as well. these migrants that show up to my border are paying between $6,000 and then $8,000 a head to get to the souther border. so cartels have made billions of dollars traveling migrants to the south...

Madrid to ask for asylum. people coming north stop in costa rica and panama, mexico which is somehow still considered a safe country. other places where they could ask for asylum and they should be required to do so. >> so you believe that particular point could have broad bipartisan support? >> i really do. it makes sense. if we don't make this political we could fix it. this -- what is happening on the border is not a democratic or a republican problem. it is a american problem that requires all of us engage in a meaningful way and resolve it. >> listen, they are great points. i wish you gre...

Regularly. >> would it have helped to have a republican there? >> republicans were there on the ground. people that we talked to. donald trump used to come regularly to me border. he never invited me along. so that just happens. but we always work in a bipartisan way. this bill that i'm talking about the safe zone act is a bipartisan bill and we'll continue reaching across the aisle and talking to our republican friends. >> so in terms of the bill, so currently under current u.s. immigration law, they have to be present or at the border to claim asylum. they can't do it in another country. par...

Police say that abby zerner was the last person to leave the classroom before she made her way to the office to seek help. there is another school employee being hailed as a hero. not talked about too much but this school employee rushed into the classroom as the children were rushed out and restrained the child who had committed the shooting until police got there. and the police told us that the child became combative and struck that school employee. but the employee was able to restrain the child until the police got there. police got there very quickly. but that person is a hero as well th...